Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Mental Representation, Essentialism, Connectionism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

Concepts and general knowledge: concepts are schemata-frameworks that have roles, slots, variables, and so on, does not specify clear enough boundries. The knowledge based view: concepts have much more to do with peeoples knowledge and worldviews than previously recognized, uses their knowledge of how a concept is organized to justify its classi cation. Forming new concepts and classifying new instances: to have a concept of something is to group similar things together, concept attainment strategies. Why do we conceptualize/categorize: evolutionary adaptive, why, savings in storage space, allow for inferences and predictions. Things we tend not to notice about of concepts/cateogories: they are only a small subset of all possible concepts/categories, there is a great deal of commonality about individuals" concepts/categories. Semantic memory: organized knowledge about the world, categories and concepts are basic components. The classical view: the feature comparison model: concepts are stored in memory according to a list of necessary features or characteristics.